The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, is angry about the publication on the Guido Fawkes blog of part of the Motorman files (see this statement from the ICO). What he doesn’t say, because no reasonable person could make such a claim, is that he is surprised that this has happened.
Plenty of people have gained access to this information over the past nine years. In and around the Leveson Inquiry the Motorman files are an open secret, with lawyers at public hearings able to question witnesses on the content (though normally without revealing anything substantive to the public). Continue reading
